Antonyms for boggy
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : bog-ee, baw-gee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɒg i, ˈbɔ gi |
Definition of boggy
Origin :- 1580s, from bog (n.) + -y (2). Related: Bogginess.
- As in marshy : adj swampy
- As in muddy : adj dark and cloudy
- The ground around, which was boggy and treacherous, was held by the enemy.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Prouided, that the ground neither be boggy, nor the inundation be past 24.
- Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson
- Just then Kit came back with a hat of water from167 a boggy place.
- Extract from : « Pluck on the Long Trail » by Edwin L. Sabin
- Snape is a dialect word for boggy ground, and Wong means a meadow.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
- The ground near this place is boggy, and animals should be watered with buckets.
- Extract from : « The Prairie Traveler » by Randolph Marcy
- It fell in soft, boggy ground, where he could not get to pick it up.
- Extract from : « Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals » by R. Lee
- And once he skirted a boggy piece of land and nearly headed them off.
- Extract from : « The Rival Campers Ashore » by Ruel Perley Smith
- But the edge of the pool on the side where she walked was boggy.
- Extract from : « The Rival Campers Ashore » by Ruel Perley Smith
- The bed of the Finke is the most boggy creek-channel I have ever met.
- Extract from : « Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration » by Ernest Giles
- The ground, too, was black and boggy, and sucked at her feet as she moved.
- Extract from : « Regiment of Women » by Clemence Dane
Synonyms for boggy
- addled
- bemired
- bespattered
- black
- blurred
- boggy
- caked
- confused
- dingy
- dirty
- dull
- fenny
- filthy
- flat
- foul
- fuzzy
- gloomy
- greasy
- grimy
- grubby
- gummy
- gunky
- hazy
- impure
- indistinct
- marshy
- miry
- moory
- mucky
- obscure
- opaque
- paludal
- quaggy
- roily
- sloppy
- slushy
- smoky
- sodden
- soggy
- soiled
- subfuse
- swampy
- turbid
- unclean
- unclear
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